Art, Incarnation and the Human Body
From Christmas to the Corpus Christi, the liturgical year keeps on reminding us about how the Word of God has assumed a human nature….
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Comparing Divine and Artistic Creativity (Part V): Toward an Ethic of Artistic Creativity
We have now arrived at the final post in this five part series. Up to this point, I have considered the way that one’s…
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Comparing Divine and Artistic Creativity (Part IV): The Relational Imago Dei
We have now arrived at the fourth installment of our series on comparing divine and artistic creativity. In previous posts, Part II and Part…
Read More‘He Who Loses His Life will Find It’: How Narrative Gives Life [Part Two]
In my previous post, I discussed the arguments of directors Deborah Pearson and George Hunka against narrative. Specifically, Pearson argued that narratives are problematic…
Read More‘Drinking the Kool-Aid’: Does Narrative Kill? [Part One]
In her article ‘The Necessity of Narrative?’, director Deborah Pearson critiques narrative, viewing it as a storytelling tool which is morally suspect because it…
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Comparing Divine and Artistic Creativity (Part III): The Functional Imago Dei
We are now in the middle of a five part series on the role of comparisons between divine and artistic creativity within a theology…
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Comparing Divine and Artistic Creativity (Part II): The Structural Imago Dei
In Part II, I consider those who identify the image of God with creativity as an aspect of the human being. What are the ethical implications of comparing divine and artistic creativity from this perspective?
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Comparing Divine and Artistic Creativity (Part I)
This is the first of a series of five posts exploring the issues involved in making comparisons between divine and artistic creativity.
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First, Read Charitably: Towards an Ethic of Criticism
Being critical in the sense of articulating a negative assessment or deconstructing a work, like a piece of writing, is easy. It is easy…
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